Safety Management System Analytics Specialist

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.

The Waymo Safety team works to promote and help to continuously improve the safety of Waymo’s fully autonomous driving technology. Our experts develop safety goals and strategies, and conduct safety engineering analyses to ensure safety is being considered throughout the design and development of our vehicles. The team develops and promotes safety strategies and policies for autonomous vehicles for its work with regulatory authorities, lawmakers, law enforcement and public and non-profit organizations. Our Safety Team also helps advise on compliance with applicable environmental, health, and safety regulations.

This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to the Safety Management System Lead.

In the Senior Safety Management System (SMS) Analytics Specialist role, you will lead how Waymo measures and reports on the performance of its Safety Management System. This role sits at the intersection of data analytics and executive governance: you will develop and synthesize reliable metrics across our safety processes, increase awareness and understanding of SMS performance data, and translate complex trends into recommendations for senior leaders. When metrics highlight areas for improvement, you will partner across teams to ensure owners are assigned and solutions deliver measurable results. In this role, your work will directly drive continual improvement across Waymo’s safety programs.

You will:

• Develop Reliable Safety Performance Indicators: Design and refine SMS implementation, maturity, and effectiveness metrics grounded in industry best practices and international safety standards, assessing and maintaining metric quality and advising teams and leaders on proper metric interpretation and use.

• Map & Synthesize Multi-Domain Safety Management Metrics: Collect, quality-assure, and synthesize quantitative and qualitative metrics across multiple business functions and trace them to the company’s top-line safety objectives.

• Run SMS Performance Reporting Governance: Lead the processes and analytics workflows used to support executive leadership review of SMS performance data and aggregated trend analyses.